The only thing Spez can threaten me with is not having to moderate and that's great. Moderating sucks because reddit makes it suck. The longer the strike goes on the more it presses a stupid man into playing stupid games. While it's very ideologically naive and lacks a sense of labour consciousness, the thing that tickles me about the strike is that most of the subreddits participating put it to some kind of user vote and received overwhelming support. My r/snackexchange post was the most upvoted of all time and not a single person in the thread, on the most babybrained website out there, was against me framing it in terms of labour theory of value. If Spez tries to replicate the coup in r/antiwork across the website, manually replacing thousands of mods, it's going to do more to kill reddit than anything else could. Those mods aren't paid in any way so we have nothing to lose while reddit stacks up bad publicity before its IPO launch and is pushed closer to making any of the bad choices they could make to resolve this. Any of those actions will inflame both the remaining mods and the userbase.
And if the strike does succeed that proves it can work. Participating in the next for something more is a button click. Even if that doesn't redefine what the website is, it destabilises it and pushes people off the platform. The more it's destabilised the more ElonMuskAtHome will fuck things up.
The comments in big subs I'm in mostly complain about it. Making fun of mods for caring and being terminally online, but not realizing they're telling on themselves in not being able to deal with a subreddit being down for two days.
Also weird amount of people siding with Reddit on the API stuff. Maybe it was lurkers who decided to comment, but bootlickers always surprise me.
Now I'm getting treat pigs replying to me in the main coordination subreddit. They're big mad that they can't just go to any of the other subreddits for the same topic or make their own.
The only thing Spez can threaten me with is not having to moderate and that's great. Moderating sucks because reddit makes it suck. The longer the strike goes on the more it presses a stupid man into playing stupid games. While it's very ideologically naive and lacks a sense of labour consciousness, the thing that tickles me about the strike is that most of the subreddits participating put it to some kind of user vote and received overwhelming support. My r/snackexchange post was the most upvoted of all time and not a single person in the thread, on the most babybrained website out there, was against me framing it in terms of labour theory of value. If Spez tries to replicate the coup in r/antiwork across the website, manually replacing thousands of mods, it's going to do more to kill reddit than anything else could. Those mods aren't paid in any way so we have nothing to lose while reddit stacks up bad publicity before its IPO launch and is pushed closer to making any of the bad choices they could make to resolve this. Any of those actions will inflame both the remaining mods and the userbase.
And if the strike does succeed that proves it can work. Participating in the next for something more is a button click. Even if that doesn't redefine what the website is, it destabilises it and pushes people off the platform. The more it's destabilised the more ElonMuskAtHome will fuck things up.
The comments in big subs I'm in mostly complain about it. Making fun of mods for caring and being terminally online, but not realizing they're telling on themselves in not being able to deal with a subreddit being down for two days.
Also weird amount of people siding with Reddit on the API stuff. Maybe it was lurkers who decided to comment, but bootlickers always surprise me.
Now I'm getting treat pigs replying to me in the main coordination subreddit. They're big mad that they can't just go to any of the other subreddits for the same topic or make their own.